The first sound heard in the film is the low rumbles and a siren of traffic outside. This is used to give the audience an idea of where the film is located. Also, the siren of a police car represents the nature of the film and how it is about Crime/ policemen.
You can also hear mumbling of other people who are clearly not in the same building as what is being seen, giving the impression that the walls are thin and therefore the area is quite poor in comparison to some other estates.
Morgan Freeman's character makes very little sound in the opening clip, the occasional noise of using an object, but not much else. This can give the audience the idea that his character is quite withdrawn and thoughtful, as at the crime scene he lets the other detective do the talking.
When Brad Pitt's character arrives on scene, he is heard before he is seen. This probably gives the idea that he is an outgoing character who will later get into difficult situations.
Their dialect is also very different between Pitt and Freeman. Morgan's speech is better pronounced and softer in comparison to Pitt's. He also has a more common vocabulary on comparison to Freeman.
The metronome, the regular tick noise, is clearly there to represent something in the film, and will become more important later in the film.
The opening credits is loud, low pitched music, giving a sinister sense to it. The sounds are synthetic, with disregard to classical instruments. The pace of the song picks up as the credits progress and at the climax, there is spoken words and then a loud rumble finish, which goes with the thriller genre style.
Within the micro elements, I chose camera angles, looking at the opening sequence, there are a lot of low angle shots on the main characters. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are shown in positions of power as they are the main characters and they are the characters who are on the 'good side'. There is also high angle shots, one of which is on a victim who is laying dead on the floor, this shows him in a position of weakness because he is dead.
Another shot that is used quite frequently is a long shot, this is so that the audience get to see the surroundings of the characters and so they know the setting of the scene. this helps the viewer to understand about where the characters are and helps them get an idea of the period of time it is set in.
shot reverse shots are used between Morgan Freeman and another character to show the conversation and this is good because it shows not only the person talking but also the reaction shot of the person listening.
At the end of the opening, there is lots of jumpy shots and this gives effect because it makes the viewer a little confused about the situation but it also gives a slight insight into what will happen at the end of the movie.
Within the micro elements I chose special effects. In movies special effects are used for an almost real effect of something that cannot be acted out in the scene such as a corpse, blood spatter or explosions. In "seven" they use some special effects such as in the opening scene it begins with a corpse in a pool of blood and a realistic blood spatter on the wall, this emphasizes that its a thriller and the plot is based around death and the drama involving it. in the opening credits there is also a person who is see behind the credits cutting their finger prints off with a razor blade this tell the audience that this is the killer because he may be trying to cover his tracks. this also tells the audience that they are messed up in the head this is the stereotypical serial killer seen in most thriller and horror movies.
Se7en is a action/ thriller film starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, they are both detectives solving a murder committed by a serial killer. I focused on the mise-en-scene in Se7en, this includes the costumes, sets and locations.
Morgan Freeman is wearing a stereotypical detective costume smarty dressed with a trench coat and hat, this shows us pretty quickly that this film will be based around solving murder mysteries and other crimes.
Brad Pitt has a typical maverick detective costume this is a leather jacket and more casual clothes. These two characters are quite miss-matched, pairing them together creates conflict between the two characters adding an element of drama to the film.
The costumes and sets don't give us a clear sense of the time period that this film is based but taking a guess it would be between 2000 and today. One thing we can learn about the film from the sets is that it is based around poorer areas of a city in America.
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